More than two years have passed since U.S. President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. Since that day, emancipation of slaves has come about bit by bit, and is yet far from complete. Today the latest chapter in this ongoing saga takes place in Kansas City, Kansas, where the city’s remaining black slaves are emancipated,…
With gloom and bitterness, winter draws nigh. Death and desertion has left Confederate armies but a shadow of their former strength. General Sherman is mere miles from the Georgia coast and the Union is putting yet more men in uniform in order to prepare for a renewed spring offensive against Richmond. In all but the…
Today in Georgia, Sherman‘s army burns the Washington County courthouse as they march eastward to the coast. As is the case each day of the march, white citizens alternately remain out of sight or express great anger as the invaders plunder and destroy. Many black slaves, on the other hand, flee from their masters and…